18 (A)Why did I come out from the womb
    (B)to see toil and sorrow,
    and spend my days in shame?

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20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery,
    and life to (A)the bitter in soul,

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14 (A)If you are insulted (B)for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory[a] and of God rests upon you. 15 But (C)let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or (D)as a meddler. 16 Yet (E)if anyone suffers as a (F)Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God (G)in that name.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 4:14 Some manuscripts insert and of power

Great Is Your Faithfulness

(A)I am the man who has seen affliction
    under the (B)rod of his wrath;

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Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All

14 “Man who is (A)born of a woman
    is (B)few of days and (C)full of trouble.

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For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, (A)like men sentenced to death, because we (B)have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. 10 (C)We are fools for Christ's sake, but (D)you are wise in Christ. (E)We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. 11 To the present hour (F)we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and (G)buffeted and (H)homeless, 12 and we (I)labor, working with our own hands. (J)When reviled, we bless; (K)when persecuted, we endure; 13 when slandered, we entreat. (L)We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, (M)the refuse of all things.

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For all our days pass away under your wrath;
    we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
10 The years of our life are seventy,
    or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span[a] is but toil and trouble;
    they are soon gone, and we fly away.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:10 Or pride

19 You know my (A)reproach,
    and my shame and my dishonor;
    my foes are all known to you.

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13 Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear (A)the reproach he endured.

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looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, (A)who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising (B)the shame, and (C)is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

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36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even (A)chains and imprisonment.

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36 For (A)you have need of endurance, so that (B)when you have done the will of God you may (C)receive what is promised.

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12 (A)which is why I suffer as I do. But (B)I am not ashamed, for (C)I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until (D)that day (E)what has been entrusted to me.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 1:12 Or what I have entrusted to him; Greek my deposit

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